New Researcher Competition
The Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research offers a special grants program for New Researchers. This program was created to encourage new dietitians just entering the profession to include research in their work.
Criteria for this program:
Only those who received their registered dietitian designation within the last five years will be considered for this grant program. You must have received your RD after December 31, 2005. This program is open only to those who have never been a principal investigator on a previous funded research project.
All other criteria for applying for a grant from CFDR apply; please see the eligibility criteria on our grant guidelines documents posted under Regular Research Grant Competition.
To apply:
Applications will be accepted through CFDR's two budgetary grant streams for this award: grants up to $5,000 and grants up to $20,000. Please refer to the guidelines for these grants posted under Regular Research Grant Competition.
Special application form for a new researcher (doc, English, French)
The review process:
Applications received in the New Researcher Grant Program will be reviewed and ranked by the Scientific Review Committee separately from those received through our other grants streams.